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Microsoft’s public enforcement action in late September — disabling a set of Azure storage and AI subscriptions for a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense — exposed how the technical architecture of modern cloud platforms can be repurposed into instruments of mass surveillance, and forced...

Microsoft’s revelation this week that it has “ceased and disabled a set of services” for a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense marks an extraordinary moment where a major cloud provider publicly acknowledged that commercial infrastructure had been used in ways that correlate with...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...

Microsoft has confirmed it has “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense,” after an expanded corporate review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that linked Microsoft Azure and Azure AI services to the storage and analysis...

Microsoft has disabled a group of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions used by a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal and externally assisted review found evidence that supported investigative reporting alleging the use of Microsoft services to ingest, store, and analyze...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to store and process large volumes...

Microsoft’s announcement that it has “ceased and disabled” specific Azure cloud and AI subscriptions used by a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense marks a rare, high‑profile enforcement of a technology company’s acceptable‑use rules against a sovereign military customer — a move prompted by...

Microsoft has disabled specific Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an expanded internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to ingest, store and analyze large...

Microsoft has told the Israel Ministry of Defence (IMOD) that it has “ceased and disabled a set of services” after an internal review found evidence that some IMOD subscriptions used Microsoft Azure storage and AI services in ways that support elements of investigative reporting alleging...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

Google’s formal complaint to Brussels ratchets up one of the most consequential regulatory fights in cloud computing: the search giant says Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices lock customers into Azure, harm competition and security, and should prompt fast antitrust action from the European...

Space42’s announcement that it has partnered with Microsoft and Core42 to build what it calls the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud marks a pivotal moment in how the Emirates plans to host, govern and accelerate mobility and autonomous systems at scale. The joint offering positions itself as...

ASDA’s renewed and expanded technology agreement with Microsoft marks a decisive step in the supermarket’s pivot to a cloud-first, AI-enabled operating model — a strategy the retailer says will sharpen price leadership, improve product availability, and free colleagues from repetitive tasks so...

Medline’s announcement that it will co-develop Mpower—an AI-powered, Microsoft Azure-backed “digital control tower” for healthcare supply chains—and that Northwestern Medicine and Providence will pilot the system represents a deliberate, high-stakes push to move inventory decisioning, clinical...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...

The London Stock Exchange Group’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) — built in collaboration with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure — has gone live for tokenised private funds and already processed its first commercial transaction, marking a deliberate shift from pilot projects to...

Nscale’s announcement — made in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — marks one of the most ambitious single-country AI infrastructure packages to land in recent memory, promising to put tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs on British soil, to seed a sovereign compute platform...

Google Cloud’s blistering quarterly performance left rivals visibly sprinting to keep up, but the bigger story is an industry-wide acceleration driven by AI demand that’s reshaping how hyperscalers compete, sign contracts, and spend on infrastructure. In Q2 and the most recent fiscal quarters...

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The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a Microsoft-powered blockchain platform called Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), going live first with tokenized private funds and completing its inaugural blockchain-powered fundraising transaction — a move that shifts the conversation...